Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia after the Swedish government made the request for his detention to the Cambodian. Warg is in custody, but according to a spokesperson for Cambodia’s police, Cambodia does not have an extradition treaty with Sweden.

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been arrested in Phnom Penh after the Swedish government made the request for his detention to the Cambodian. Warg is in custody, but according to a spokesperson for Cambodia’s police, Cambodia does not have an extradition treaty with Sweden.

“We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we'll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case,” Kirth Chantharith told the AFP.

Warg failed to show up for the start of his one-year jail sentence for copyright violations, which is puzzling considering his fellow co-founding Pirateers, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde both showed up for their hearings and had their jail sentence reduced.

Pirate Bay no longer operates in Sweden for the most part, but the torrent site remains active in other parts of the world.

The following message is posted on Pirate Bay to signify that its owners are not responsible for the sharing of copyrighted content/materials:

Only torrent files are saved at the server. That means no copyrighted and/or illegal material are stored by us. It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible for the material that is being spread using the tracker. Any complaints from copyright and/or lobby organizations will be ridiculed and published at the site.

Is it possible that Warg will seek asylum with the Cambodians? Let's see how this Assange-esque story unfolds.